The Youth Leadership Initiative is a multicultural program designed to help youth develop strong, effective leadership skills to work in diverse community settings. The program assists youth in learning about themselves, working with others, and engaging in meaningful action.
Wilder Research and YLI worked together to create the Youth Participatory Evaluation Practice Guide, which was developed to help youth development programs develop their own practice-centered youth participatory evaluation (YPE) approaches. YLI worked with Wilder Research to gather feedback from participants involved in the first formal immersive workshop of YPE that used the Practice Guide.
Eight YLI alumni participated in a focus group or phone interviews that asked about the long-term impacts of participating in YLI.
This summary includes background information about the YLI program and evaluation results from 2018-19.
This guide provides a detailed description of YLI’s approach to developing youth mentors in their program. It was created to help youth programs determine how to involve youth in leadership roles.
Wilder Research and YLI worked together to create this guide for youth participatory evaluation (YPE). YPE is an approach that engages young people in evaluating the programs, organizations, and systems designed to serve them.
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